vSphere 6.5 Security – Social Media Links

vSphere 6.5 is announced and the interest for the security features has been off the hook! My phone has been ringing like mad and emails are coming in fast and furious from customers and VMware field folks with “Where can I learn more???”. With that in mind, I’ve created this blog post as a repository of social media links that are devoted to vSphere 6.5 Security “stuff”.

This give a solid overview of all the new security enhancements we are making for vSphere 6.5.

VMworld 2016 – USA and EMEA

Next up are VMworld sessions on vSphere 6.5 security. These links are to the US Sessions where you’ll see lots of content labeled “Tech Preview”. This was because 6.5 wasn’t announced. However, now that it is, I’m happy to say that the slides for Vegas and Europe, where 6.5 was announced, are essentially the same.

When the US content becomes available for all of the sessions I’ll change the links below to reflect that.

VMworld 2016 USA INF8850 vSphere Platform Security

This session gives a higher level overview of all of the new security features in 6.5. Pay close attention to the Secure Boot content!

And this session show all of the cool new logging capabilites of vSphere 6.5 and introduces customters to Log Insight for vCenter, a free/limited version of Log Insight that you can use if you are already using vCenter today and don’t have a logging solution.

Post Announcement Content

After the floodgates opened and I was able to publicly talk about the new security features I have embarked on sharing them whereever I can.

VMworld TV

First up was an interview with VMworld TV. In this interview we discuss VM Encryption and Secure Boot for ESXi and virtual machines.

Veeam Community Podcast

Next up was an interview done by Michael White (@mwVme)from Veeam for their online interview series. With me are Emad Younis (@emad_younis) and Adam Eckerle (@eck79). Emad, Adam and myself go over our respective vSphere 6.5 area. Michael is always fun to talk to and he doesn’t disappoint here.

In this podcast we dive right in to all of the new features like VM Encryption, Logging, Secure Boot and we discuss one that we call “Virtual Machine Sandboxing”. This is an architectural change in the ESXi hypervisor to further secure and isolate virtual machines from the hypervisor. You won’t see any other mention of this in any available content so Pete and John got the scoop!

Wrap Up

As more content becomes available, I’ll be updating it here. In addition, more blog and demo content around all the new features is being worked on and will be coming out soon so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading,

mike

About the Author

Mike Foley is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. His primary focus is on security of the core platform, vSphere.
His primary goal is to help IT Admins build more secure platforms that stand up to scrutiny from security teams with the least impact to IT Operations.
Mike is also the current author of the vSphere Security Configuration (formerly Hardening) Guide.
Previously, Mike was on the evangelist team at RSA where he concentrated on virtualization and cloud security. Mike was awarded a patent (8,601,544) in December 2013 for dual-band authentication using the virtual infrastructure
Mike has a personal blog at https://yelof.com and contributes to the VMware vSphere and Security blogs as well.
Follow him at @vSphereSecurity on Twitter